This week’s My Little Rant is a reflection on what it feels like to live with constant awareness - of news, opinions, crises, and other people’s emotions and how that level of exposure quietly changes us.

It’s not a rant about technology, and it’s not nostalgic for a different time.
It’s simply an observation about distance, overload, and what it might mean to protect a bit of space so we can stay human.

No solutions.
Just a pause.

Quick note before we start. This is My Little Rant, but in video form now. So yes, this is actually me. Not an AI voice. Not a robot. No dramatic voiceover budget.Just my real face, my real voice, and the same slightly unfiltered thoughts. Alright, let’s begin..

This episode looks at a moment from my childhood that felt like abandonment at the time, and how it later became one of the most formative lessons of my life.

It’s about perspective, difficult choices, and why you don’t always get the full view when you’re living through something.

Press play if you’re questioning a decision, or being hard on yourself for not knowing what you couldn’t have known yet.

What keeps you going when everything in you wants to stop?

In this week’s Little Rant, I explore the quiet power of hope not the fluffy kind, but the raw, biological, life-saving kind that makes us hold on for one more day.

Inspired by a decades-old psychological study that revealed how belief can change endurance itself, this episode looks at why hope still matters, even when logic says it shouldn’t.

Because when people stop believing things can get better, they stop trying.
And when they stop trying, they sink.

This one’s not about being positive.
It’s about remembering that hope is the proof we still care and sometimes, that’s what keeps us alive.

This week’s rant tackles a word I wish didn’texist in conversations about teenage girls: “slutty.”
It’s not a word I use, but it’s a word a mother used about her own daughter the other weekend, and it opened up a much bigger conversation about shame, conditioning, and the expectations we put on girls before they even understandwhat those labels mean.

In this episode, I talk about:

• the language we still use to police girls’bodies
• how girls absorb shame long before they enter the workplace
• why boys need as much (if not more) guidance as girls
• and how these attitudes shape the adults our kids become

This isn’t a parenting lecture. It’s a reflection on the world we’re creating and the behaviour we still normalise.

Ifwe want confident girls and respectful boys, we need to break this cycle.

Some conversations never happen, not because we don’t care, but because we think there’ll be time.

In this week’s Little Rant, I reflect on the quiet ache of questions left unasked after my dad’s passing 22 years ago, and how those reflections inspired Unplugged Moments: Grandparents Edition.

It’s a gentle reminder that the people we love won’t be here forever but their stories can be.
Ask the questions now.
Listen properly.
Collect the memories before they fade.

If you’d like to start those conversations in your own family, you can find Unplugged Moments: Grandparents Edition here:
👉 Available on Amazon UK

Because one day, you’ll wish you had asked more.

We live in a world where everyone’s talking but hardly anyone’s really listening.
We nod, we multitask, we half-hear the people we love while our brains sprint somewhere else.
And the result? A culture of noise, disconnection, and loneliness disguised as communication.

In this week’s Little Rant, I unpack how we got here, how social media trained us to treat conversations like comment sections, how constant distraction has rewired our ability to pay attention, and why listening, truly listening, has quietly become one of the last real acts of love.

This episode isn’t about being perfect.
It’s about being present.
Because when we stop trying to fix, interrupt, or perform empathy, and actually listen, something shifts in us, and in the person speaking.

So grab a coffee, take a breath, and tune in.
Because if we all listened a little more, maybe we’d finally start hearing each other again.

That awkward moment when the hiring manager could be… you, fifteen years ago.

What do you do when you’re sitting in an interview and realise the hiring manager could basically be you… fifteen years ago?

In this episode of My Little Rants, I talk about that awkward power shift , when you’ve got more experience than the person holding the clipboard — and how to handle it with humour, grace, and just enough inner sarcasm to survive it.

Because sometimes being the most experienced person in the room isn’t the advantage you think it is.

Last week, Amazon announced its biggest round of corporate layoffs yet - 14,000 people gone overnight in the name of “efficiency.”
Not because the company is struggling, but because AI is cheaper, shareholders are impatient, and somewhere along the line, we stopped treating humans as anything more than numbers on a spreadsheet.

This rant isn’t just about Amazon.
It’s about what happens when billion-dollar corporations start calling greed “innovation.”
When the richest men in the world claim progress while creating poverty.
And when society stops asking the question: how many billions does one man really need before decency becomes unaffordable?

Why are we still confusing hours with output?

In this episode, I talk about how part-time workers , especially parents , are still being undervalued in a world that claims to care about flexibility.
Inspired by a post about a single mum who could only do school hours yet became her firm’s top performer, I explore why so many companies still equate availability with ability, and how that mindset is costing them their best talent.

Because it’s 2025 and flexibility isn’t a perk anymore.
It’s the future.

This week’s rant is inspired by Dr Max Goodwin from New Amsterdam , the kind of leader who walks into chaos and asks just four words: “How can I help?”

It’s such a simple question, yet somewhere along the way, we forgot how powerful it is. We got busy managing, fixing, performing. We stopped listening.

In this episode, I explore what would happen if we brought those four words back , not just in leadership, but in life. What if we all started there? With curiosity, kindness, and the genuine intention to make things a little better for someone else.

Because maybe the world doesn’t need more managers or metrics.
Maybe it just needs more people asking, “How can I help?”